CHC Leaders Fly In From Red States To Warn Medicaid Cuts, Funding Expiration Would Hurt Clinics

The CEOs of Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Missouri, Texas and North Carolina told Inside Health Policy they traveled to Capitol Hill this week as part of an urgent lobbying push to warn lawmakers that proposed Medicaid cuts would backfire on these health centers, which are legally required to serve all patients regardless of their ability to pay and get roughly half their revenue from Medicaid -- and comes as CHCs also face losing federal funding unless Congress acts by Oct. 1.